Akamai Linode outage, June 2026: Service Issue: Longview

Akamai Linode reported and resolved an incident: Service Issue: Longview. It lasted 4.3 hours.

Resolved

From Akamai Linode's official status page, in their words.

What happened

Started
Resolved
Duration
4.3 hours
Impact
minor
Affected
Longview
  1. Investigating
  2. Identified
  3. Monitoring
  4. Resolved

Why it happened

Akamai Linode has not given a cause in its updates. We never guess one.

How it was resolved

Starting around 23:15 UTC on June 15, 2026, some customers were unable to access the Longview graph dashboard. The investigation revealed that Linodes were unable to reach the Longview endpoint and were failing to report data. The impact was limited to reading the existing reporting data only and there was no permanent reporting data loss due to this issue. To mitigate the impact, we manually rebooted identified VM boxes to take effect and resolve Gateway errors. The impact was mitigated at 9:00 UTC on June 16, 2026, following this action. Post-mitigation, all expected data is available in the Longview graph dashboard. We will continue to investigate the root cause and will take appropriate preventive actions. We apologize for the impact and thank you for your patience and continued support. We are committed to making continuous improvements to make our systems better and prevent recurrence. This summary provides an overview of our current understanding of the incident given the information available. Our investigation is ongoing, and any information herein is subject to change.

Akamai Linode's closing update

This incident on the Akamai Linode status page

Timeline

Oldest first, from the first notice to the resolution. From Akamai Linode's official status page, in their words.

  1. investigating

    Our team is investigating an issue affecting the Longview service. During this time, users may experience "waiting for data" in cloud manager and might not see the expected metrics. We will share additional updates as we have more information.

  2. identified

    The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

  3. monitoring

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  4. resolved

    We haven’t observed any additional issues with the Longview service, and will now consider this incident resolved. If you continue to experience problems, please open a Support ticket for assistance.

  5. postmortem

    Starting around 23:15 UTC on June 15, 2026, some customers were unable to access the Longview graph dashboard. The investigation revealed that Linodes were unable to reach the Longview endpoint and were failing to report data. The impact was limited to reading the existing reporting data only and there was no permanent reporting data loss due to this issue. To mitigate the impact, we manually rebooted identified VM boxes to take effect and resolve Gateway errors. The impact was mitigated at 9:00 UTC on June 16, 2026, following this action. Post-mitigation, all expected data is available in the Longview graph dashboard. We will continue to investigate the root cause and will take appropriate preventive actions. We apologize for the impact and thank you for your patience and continued support. We are committed to making continuous improvements to make our systems better and prevent recurrence. This summary provides an overview of our current understanding of the incident given the information available. Our investigation is ongoing, and any information herein is subject to change.

What this means for a business (and what to check now)

  • Retry anything that failed during the 4.3 hours.
  • Enter any payments, bookings or jobs you took another way.
  • If a deadline fell inside the window, keep this page as your record of the outage.

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